Western Kansas world., 1887-12-10

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last week while at Wa-Keeney. Mr.. Pink
ham caught it, we believe. Mr.. Bake
pays one dollar apiece for weasels, deae
or alive.
Miss Carrie Sweet visited friends a
Banner Saturday and Sunday. It seem
ed like old times to hear her melodious
voice in the Sabbath school. Come
again. It does us good to have oul
friends visit us.
J. CANTREL B.
Mayor Smith, of Millbrook, was il
town yesterday.
Some rock has been hauled this weel
| for the court house.
Martin Gates, of Hays City, was il
town Wednesday night.
| Sheriff Hopkins, of Cove county, was
in the city on Wednesday.
Mir. Aaron Deardorff, q new settlel
in Collyer township,was Thursday sub
scription caller.
County Treasurer Gibbs has worked
at his desk with difficulty this week, OF
account of his back being lame.
Lawyer Danford, while lifting Goa
on Wednesday, sprained his back, and
suffered considerably for several hours.
The cellar at Sheriff Bakers resi-
dence is being improved in various ways
including the building of stone walls.
Squire McGarvie has recently los
about hundred bushels of oats by theft.
His granary is some distance from his
residence.
Work on the colored Baptist church
is carried on now and then. 1t has been
been the desire to have the building com.
pleted by Christmas, but it will not be.
On Wednesday some kind of for
eign substance invaded Riley Moore's left
eye. The pain was almost unbearable
for several hours, but the next day he was
not suffering.
w. r. Ehler, a Cove City druggist,
was in town on Wednesday to employ
legal counsel. He had permitted a cred
itor to take possession of bis goods, and
wanted to replevy them.
C. T. Mcknight up to Thursday
morning, had been attacked for the
third time by a neighbor's vicious dog.
We are expecting almost any time along
now to hear of something dropping.
s. S. Hunter, of New York, agent for
woollen cloths, and Walter Whitaker, of
Cincinnati, agent for merchant tailor
trimmings, were in the city on Wednes-
day, and sold bills of goods to Mr.. Spicer.
whats in name?" The Abilene
Gazette, in noting the makeup of the
Presbyterian church trustees at this
place, prints for A. H. Blair's name, w.
FL. Blain; and the Topeka Common u7vealtA
calls him w. Fl. Clair.
Our advertisers are generally pros
porous. The annual inventory taken of
l.. A. Fishers goods at Collyer this month
showed them to be worth over eleven
thousand dollars. This is only one of his
three stores. All are good ones.
Articles of incorporation for the First
Presbyterian Church of Wa-Keeney were
filed with the secretary of state on
Wednesday. The trustees are w. Fl.
Wilcox, 8. B. Barnes, A. II. Blair, James
G. Heilig and Henry Robinson.
Mrs. J. NJ. Robinson, who had been
in Wa-Keeney for about five weeks, started
Wednesday afternoon, with her husband,
to their home, in the south part of the
county. A portion of the trip was made
that day, and the balance, Thursday.
Will. Kelly is getting to be consid-
able of tree admirer. During the re-
cent snow period he shoveled big piles of
the material around his trees, thus secur-
ing for the future benefit of the trees the
water which came from the melting snow.
He is on another good trail: He makes
it point to enlarge gradually the culti-
waited ground around each of his trees.
Mr.. Chas. A. Mulack, of Rock Island,
ILL.,, was pleasant Thursday caller. in
with his old friend, VIM.
Sweeney. Mr.. Mulack will visit for a
time with his old friend Clement Young,
in the Smoky valley, in this county. Mr..
Young and Mr.. MulackIs father were,
many years ago, partners in business in
Rock Island. Mr.. Mulack, our caller, is
a printer.
Sensible people are bobbing up con-
tinually in every state. Now comes
Massachusetts, subscriber with this graft
tying information: "My interest in West
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